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This site is about one Finison family, which is descended from Lorenz Fineisen, who emigrated from Liptingen, Baden, Germany and settled in Michigan. Other Finison families in the United States, mainly in the Southeast, are unrelated and of Scottish or English descent (also spelled Finnison, Fenison).

Other prominent German branches include Wenzler (Balgheim) (see also the other database Wenzlers of Balgheim on this site), Villing (Böttingen), Ragg/Rackh (Renquishausen), Schleh/Schlee (Durrweiler), Bohnet (Obermusbach), Berner (Hildrizhausen), and Egeler (Nebringen), Rauleder/Rowlader (Münchingen), and Velte (Münchingen). For an overview of the German ancestry see the pedigree trees of Lorenz John Finison and Mary Ann Rowlader.

Other branches of the family tree include Van Aken (Netherlands->New York->Michigan); other New Netherlands families including Westbrook, Van Benschoten, DeWitt, Hornbeck, Decker, and Vernooy; quite a few English Colonial families such as Phelps, Adams, St. John, Hamilton, Clement, Knapp and Hibbard; the German Palatinate Hiesrodt/Heitzrood; Irish Hara; Newman from Leicestershire and Bushell from Warwickshire; and Bennett, Furrow, and Finton.

This tree also now includes my father's ancestry, including White, Cooley, Brannen, Canfield, Collins, and more.

This site is run on PhpGedView. All details about living people should be hidden except to authorized users. If you have a problem or have any comments or feedback please contact Michael White. This site was last updated on 15 November 2008.

 
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400+ Media Items, Here to Stay
17 November 2008 - 3:30:08pm

I have finally come up with a good process for synchronizing my offline media with the website, and have uploaded 400+ media items. There are about two hundred that include living people, so only family members can register for an account and see those photos. I have also merged my mother's (Finison) and father's (White) trees because they had several common ancestors and I was tiring of maintaining their ancestors in both trees. There are a few duplicate people as a result of this who I have yet to merge.
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